Meteorologist Geoff Fox fired by FOX CT

Staff reports

Updated 12:28 am, Saturday, November 17, 2012

Meteorologist Geoff Fox was fired by Fox CT on Friday for "inappropriate conduct," according to a report by the Hartford Courant.

Fox joined the company in April 2011 after his contract was not renewed by WTNH News 8.

In a statement, Fox CT said station executives learned of the conduct late Thursday, according to the Courant. The newspaper reported that no other comment or details about the dismissal will be released because it is a personnel matter.

The Courant and Fox CT (WTIC) are owned by Tribune Corporation and partner in news coverage, working out of the same Hartford newsroom.

Fox couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

On Thursday, Fox posted a blog post titled "Does This Qualify As Job Security?" on his personal website, geofffox.com. The post came after a full-page advertisement featuring Fox and his Fox CT weather team colleagues ran in the Thursday edition of the Courant.

"People who work on-the-air in TV are notoriously insecure, including me," Fox wrote in the post. "Ads like this are more than promotion. They represent the company's commitment to you. This says they think of us as a `draw.'"

Fox had been working on the station's 11 p.m. newscast.

In Jan. 2011, New Haven-based WTNH announced that Fox would be leaving the company when his contract expired at the end of February of the same year. He had worked for the company for 26 years.